Background The National Coalition on Affirmative Action (NCAA) organized a Round table event to mark the International Women Day’s at ANEEJ Secretariat April 26, 2018. The year’s theme was Rural and Urban Activists transforming Women’s lives”. Over 180 persons across the state attended. The participants were drawn from the government and private sector. Dignitaries that were present were the wife […]
If the eyes are the windows through which we see the world, the television has been described as the instrument with which the world can speak to the world. It is a box a tube, a container of dreams and wonders. And so, to speak and analyse on an issue of great significance to Nigeria, that is, the Petroleum Industry […]
BACKGROUND / EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ANEEJ hosted the civil society organisations (CSOs) and host communities dialogue on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), with the objective of harmonising views and building consensus amongst stakeholders on the PIB. The programme, held at the Aldgate Hotel in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, brought together 53 participants representing CSOs and host communities across the Niger Delta region. […]
Friday March 2, 2018. Technology without human beings is nothing. But human beings with technology, everything is happening, the good and the bad. On the bad side, […]
The African saying is true, that a toad does not show up in the daytime for nothing. It is either that something is after its life or it is after something. In this case, two heavyweights in the development sector in Nigeria – the Rev David Ugolor (ANEEJ Executive Director) and Hon Joel Bisina (LITE-Africa Executive Director), showed up in […]
16 February, 2018 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has lauded the honesty behind the disclosure of the fraud involving the Social Investment Programme of the Federal government in some states as announced by the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment Programme, Mrs. Mariam Uwais and aligns with her for proper […]
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, has written to ANEEJ executive director the Rev David Ugolor, on the occasion of his 48th birthday celebrations marked with an inaugural public lecture series with the theme SHRINKING PUBLIC SPACE AND INNOVATION AS PANACEA . In the letter, the Edo State executive governor said that Rev David Ugolor’s ‘interest in matters of […]
15th February, 2018 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…Sequel to recent legislation, Unexplained Wealth Orders, UWO, which empowers courts in the UK to seize assets of foreigners in the UK with questionable source of funding, the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has said that Nigeria can leverage on this legislation and use it as an opportunity to conduct […]
6th February, 2018 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has condemned the plan by the Inspector General of Police to arrest the media spokesperson of former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, on trumped up charges bordering on incitement and a likelihood of the breach of public peace from a press release which Mr. Afegbua […]
Press Release 29th January, 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has hailed the return of $73million (about N21.1billion) of the Malabu Funds to Nigeria by the UK and has expressed a desire that CSOs should participate in the monitoring of the use of the funds, in the spirit of the MOU which Nigeria signed […]